The next few hours were hell as I paced in my cell. I kept wondering what was going on with Gaz and Dib wouldn't shut his noise-tube!

"Zim! Stop pacing! We have to find a way to get out of here!" Dib said, grabbing me by the shoulders.

I pushed him away from me. "Don't you dare lay a hand on me again!" I growled.

He pushed me back. "Or what?" he growled back, daring me to make the first move.

Gir got between us and separated us by putting one of his hands on our chests and his arms grew separating us until we both hit the walls on the opposite sides of the cell.

We glared at each other.

"Would you both calm down?" Gir growled, his eyes flashing a bright red.

"You! It's all your fault! If you had only followed my orders but no, you just had to go and kidnap the damn baby! We could have been the rulers of earth right now, but look at it! It's just rocks in space now!" I yelled at him.

Gir froze and looked up at me. "I did all that for a reason Zim!" he yelled at me, his hand going from my chest to my throat.

I growled at him, scratching at his metal hand but he wouldn't let me go. "And what is that?" I growled at him.

"So that you could forget all about Tenn, Zim! And it was working perfectly fine until we left earth! Just one female! One! But no, Tallest Red had to spoil her. About twenty years gone down the drain, the bad thing is that I got attached to her too!" Gir growled at me, glaring in my direction.

"Don't bring Tenn into this Gir!" I growled at him.

"Who the hell is Tenn?" I heard Dib yell from the other side of the room.

"Ten was Zim's mate before, but they sent her out to invade a dangerous planet… she died." Gir said.

"Shut up Gir!" I yelled at him, but his hand started to close up on my throat.

"Zim became more and more depressed with each passing day… I had to do something, he was my mastah… and when I saw Gazzy just lying there… I knew what I had to do." He whispered, looking down.

"Zim? Is this true?" I heard Dib ask.

Gir let his arm drop. I gasped for air, falling to the ground landing on my knees as I started to heave, one hand on the ground, holding me up, while the other clutched at my bare chest.

"Tell him the truth Zim… there's no denying it now." Gir said as he went to sit in the farthest darkest corner of the cell, his hands grasping his head as if he had a headache.

"Zim, tell me about this Tenn person." Dib said, a glare on his face.

I gulped in some air, trying to recover from Gir chocking me. "I don't want to talk about it." I growled.

Dib picked me up by my shoulders and glared into my eyes. "Tell me." He said through clenched teeth.

"Why do you want to know so much?" I asked him thrashing around trying to get out of his grip.

Dib let go of me and I fell to the floor. "Because, you are my sister's mate… and she needs to know about this." He growled at me.

"Why? This is my past! I'm trying to forget about it!" I told him as I got up.

"You're going to tell me space-boy." He snarled again.

I sighed, knowing that sooner or later he was going to find out.

"Before I was sent to Invade earth… I had a mate. Her name was Tenn, the best of all the Irkens… the odd thing is, well, Gaz reminds me so much of her.

"She was sent out to invade a planet, but she was brutally murdered when she set foot on the planet." I said, the memories of my beloved Tenn coming back to haunt me… the past that I desperately wanted to forget about was coming back to haunt me.

"Gir noticed and well, he already explained everything didn't he." I said with a small chuckle. "He transformed Gaz into an Irken, I don't know how, but if I had the chance to go back in time… I wouldn't have reassembled him… we could have avoided all these problems…" I said, slapping my forehead as one by one, all the memories that I've been trying to forget resurfaced and haunted me.

I heard Gir let out a small sob, but other than that everything was quiet.

"Hey! You!" one of the guards said pointing at me.

I looked at him and walked up to the cell door. "What?" I asked him.

"You're mate… she's having some… complications." He said.

My eyes shot up to meet his. My arms shoot past the bars and grabbed onto his shirt. "What happened?" I growled at him.

He pried my hands off of him and smoothed down his shirt. "We'll have the doctor tell you." He said and pulled open the door, yanked me out, closing the door behind me and cuffing me.

"Hey! What about me? I'm her brother!" Dib yelled out but we ignored him as we rushed out the building and walked into another one that looked a lot like a medical unit.

The guard stopped me in front of a door and pushed me inside. I looked at where I was and my eyes widened when I saw Gaz lying down on a bed passed out.

I ran up to her and stood beside the bed, looking down at her. "Irk, not you too Gaz!"

I turned around quickly when I saw the door open and a doctor walked in.

"What's wrong with her?" I asked him.

He looked up from his clip board and let it fall to his side. "It's never easy to say this… but this is a matter of life and death… I'm so sorry to inform you of this but you need to choose between the female or the baby that she carries inside of her." He said.